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I think the link will be here: https://appleseed.apple.com/betaprogram/

This link works now

Make sure to not install this on your main machine, especially if you have anything of importance on it.

This is still a beta and should be treated as such. I know I had major issues with the last OSX beta I put on mine.

>> "I know I had major issues with the last OSX beta I put on mine."

I've usually heard the betas of OSX have been quite stable. Considering they are going to run a public beta of this I would assume it's more stable than usual OS betas they released. I was considering installing it on my main system (I only have one Mac) but you've put me off a bit. What happened to your system?

Earlier betas of Mavericks were damn unstable/unusable. Apps crashing all over the place, third party apps not working because of changed APIs etc. I had to revert as well (not this beta though).

Try it in a VM first. Most things will be fine, however if it were production ready it wouldn't be marked beta. Something that you need may be disabled or in flux leaving you hanging.

which of current VMs application able to run OSX on mac hardware?

user gnufied put it best, they changed a bunch of APIs and a lot of my programs were left unworking or crashing much more than usual. With that said, I know that Mavericks was a unique use case, but still might be a good idea to wait for a few reviews.

I've started downloading it. I don't think you have to use this link, I've started my download from the Member Center[0]. It gave a "redeem code" and started downloading.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/devcenter/ios/index.action

Edit: This is only for people who are members of the Developer Program. I only pay for iOS and I have access to OS X too so you probably only need membership from the one of the developer programs.

That's how developers get access to builds. Starting in the summer, Apple is also doing a public beta, and you have to sign up at the link to get access

Love the fog effect. I wonder how many people will notice..

"Spotlight makes it easier than ever to find things on your Mac. And now it finds information from Wikipedia, Bing, Maps, and other sources, too."

Seriously, downvotes? Calling out Bing is interesting.

Your top comment had nothing to do with this discussion and I have no idea what you mean by "Calling out Bing", because they're saying that you can now find things using Bing.

I didn't down vote you but I can understand why you were. You copied a quote from the source with no explanation of why or what was interesting about it.

Link doesn’t work yet.

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